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  The Seven Terrestrial Planes
As with her cycles and subcycles of cosmic evolution, she has planes and subplanes of being, a fractal ontological spectrum of innumerable divisions, comparable to the elaborate theosophies of Gnosticism and Kabbalah, but actually deriving from the "Cosmic philosophy" and classifications of Max Theon.
As with all the planes, the First or lowest Kosmic Plane, the Terrestrial or Prakritic - "Prakriti" being the Indian term for psycho-physical substance - which includes the various physical, psychic, and spiritual levels, is in turn divided into seven planes; the highest being unknowable and hence unspecified.
This plane is the limit of the ordinary medium...A non-mediumistic person to reach it must be asleep or in a trance, or under the influence of laughing gas; or in ordinary delirium...
www.kheper.net /topics/Theosophy/HPB-planes.html   (2265 words)

  
  Plane (cosmology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Hindu cosmology, there are traditionally seven lokas or worlds, while Buddhist cosmology has a much larger number of "deva lokas", identified with both traditional cosmology and states of meditation.
In the early 20th century, Max Heindel presented in The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception a cosmology related to the scheme of evolution in general and the evolution of the solar system and the earth in particular, according to the Rosicrucians.
In esoteric cosmology expansion refers to the emanation or unfolding of steadily denser planes or spheres from the spiritual summit, what Greek mythology described as "Chaos", until the lowest and most material world is reached.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plane_of_existence   (1240 words)

  
 Plane - Integral Wiki
A plane of existence (or plane or dimension) is in esoteric cosmology and metaphysics, a theoretical region of space and/or consciousness beyond the known universe, or the region containing the universe itself.
The concept of planes of existence might be seen as a deriving from shamanic and traditional mythological ideas of a vertical world-axis, a cosmic mountain or tree or pole (e.g.
In the late 19th century, the metaphysical term "planes" was popularised by the theosophy of H.P. Blavatsky, who in The Secret Doctrine and other writings propounded a complex cosmology consisting of seven planes and subplanes, based on a synthesis of Eastern and Western ideas.
integralwiki.net /index.php?title=Plane   (395 words)

  
 plane - OneLook Dictionary Search
PLANE : Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include plane: plane tree, plane table, block plane, median plane, tangent plane, more...
Words similar to plane: aeroplane, airplane, flat, level, planed, planer, planing, shave, sheet, skim, carpenter's plane, planing machine, smooth, woodworking plane, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=plane   (498 words)

  
 Sufi Encyclopedia @ HigherPower.org (Higher Power)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Loving God and loving/helping every human being irrespective of his race, religion or nationality, and without consideration for any possible reward, is the key to ascension according to Sufis.
Although there is no consensus with regard to Sufi cosmology, one can disentangle various threads that led to the crystallization of more or less coherent cosmological doctrines.
Ihsan • Lataif • Cosmology • Tajalli • Noor • Maqaam • Haal • Manzil • Yaqeen • Fanaa • Baqaa • Index of Sufi Concepts
higherpower.org /encyclopedia/Sufi   (3706 words)

  
 Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial - Part 1
Until a few hundred years ago, the Solar System and the Universe were equivalent in the minds of scientists, so the discovery that the Earth is not the center of the Solar System was an important step in the development of cosmology.
Early in the 20th century Shapley established that the Solar System is far from the center of the Milky Way.
The case for an isotropic and homogeneous Universe became much stronger after Penzias and Wilson announced the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background in 1965.
www.astro.ucla.edu /~wright/cosmo_01.htm   (1560 words)

  
 A Journey To The Truth
Although there is no consensus with regard to Sufi cosmology, one can disentangle various threads that led to the crystallization of more or less coherent mythic cosmological doctrines.
These include Plane of Angels, Plane of Jinns, and Plane of Humans.
On the other hand, it is surrounded by another realm known as Alam-e-Araf or Barzakh (Astral plane), where humans stay after they die (when the connection of soul breaks with the physical body).
www.ajourneytothetruth.com /Sufism.htm   (3935 words)

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